Positive youth development merits state investment
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Measuring Positive Youth Development: The Development of a State Benchmark
Public health benchmarks are indicators for well-being and health status that help inform program planning and policy development. In Oregon, recent efforts by a group of state agencies and community partners led to the adoption of a Positive Youth Development (PYD) benchmark by the Oregon Progress Board in 2006. In this paper, we describe the process of creating the state benchmark and present...
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عنوان ژورنال: California Agriculture
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0008-0845
DOI: 10.3733/ca.v067n01p38